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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261955
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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...
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Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?
Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish between finding employment locally or by being geographically mobile. We find that home ownership hampers the propensity to move for job reasons but improves the chances of finding...
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A study of inventors : incentives, productivity, and mobility
Hoisl, Karin - 2007 - 1. Auflage
und Problemstellung -- Begriffliche Grundlagen -- Theoretische und konzeptionelle Grundlagen -- Methodische Grundlagen und empirische Ergebnisse -- Implikationen für Wissenschaft und Praxis -- Zusammenfassung.
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Econometric Analysis of Count Data
Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2008 - Fifth edition
The book provides graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date survey of statistical and econometric techniques for the analysis of count data, with a focus on conditional distribution models. Proper count data probability models allow for rich inferences, both with respect to the...
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Social-family network and self-employment: Evidence from temporary rural-urban migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - 2011
We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test … this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … social-family network exactly because he is self-employed. For this reason, a simple correlation between the probability of …
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Worker Flows, Job Flows and Firm Wage Policies: An Analysis of Slovenia
Haltiwanger, John; Vodopivec, Milan - 2002
Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings of the labor market with potentially greater flexibility in terms of both wage and employment adjustment. We investigate the impact of the changing labor market for Slovenia using unique longitudinal matched...
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Do unemployment benefits promote or hinder structural change?
Boeri, Tito; Macis, Mario - 2008
According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we evaluate empirically the relationship between...
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Age-specific cyclical effects in job reallocation and labor mobility
Gielen, Anne C.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2005
We present an empirical analysis of job reallocation and labor mobility using matched worker-firm data for the Netherlands to investigate how firms adjust their workforce over the cycle. Our data cover the period 1993-2002. We find that cyclical adjustments of the workforce occur mainly through...
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Meta-analysis of empirical evidence on the labour market impacts of immigration
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2008
The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the 'absorption capacity' of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical...
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